Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Vanilla Pound Cake

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Vanilla Pound
Cake. I was thrilled then this recipe was selected as pound cakes were one of
the first cakes that I ever made, and I’ve had good luck with them from the
very beginning. I almost didn’t make this cake as it’s been so warm and my
house is so hot that I haven’t really felt like baking. When it is 81 degrees
in the house at 9 am, I don’t really want to turn on the oven! I got home about
noon on Monday and looked at the recipe. I really wanted to make this and I had
all the ingredients, so I decided I would bake it. The house didn’t seem quite
so hot at the time, which helped.

This cake is very classic and you can find the recipe with a
quick Google search. It doesn’t use any unusual ingredients; just staples like
butter, flour, sugar, and vanilla. I had some vanilla-infused sugar that I had
planned to use, but I forgot to grab that rather than the regular sugar. I did
use the tube pan as the recipe recommended; I don’t use it very often so it was
nice to use something different. Mine baked up very nicely and came out of the
pan beautifully.

I really like this cake. The crumb texture is very delicate,
so the cake is nice and light. Even though the cake doesn’t have a lot of fancy
ingredients, it’s still wonderful. A piece of the cake by itself was delicious,
but I also will use the cake as the base for strawberry shortcake. This cake
lends itself to variations, so make sure you check out the Tuesdays with Dorie site
to see what the other TWD bakers did with this recipe.